qualitative and visual research of city life, focusing on aspects of cultural diversity in cities, transformation of public and private spaces and changing patterns of consumption cultures.

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HOT OFF THE PRESS:

CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN RUSSIAN CITIES
The Urban Landscape in the post-Soviet Era
Berghahn Books May 2010

other publications:

Kommunalka und Penthouse
Stadt und Stadtgesellschaft im postsowjetischen Moskau
[Kommunalka and Penthouse - City and urban society in post-Soviet Moscow]
LIT-Verlag: Münster, 2005

Building Site Moscow

with photographs by Igor Moukhin, urbanXposure 1999 To order a copy of this book please contact urbanXposure.

"Ordinary young hooligans" or Moscow geographies of fear: Spatial practices in and around the Peoples Friendship University of Russia, in: Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev (eds): Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations. Cultural dimensions, Moscow: Krasand, 2008, pp.3-15.

Von Ausstellungen, Begegnungen und Partnerschaften: Zur kulturellen Logik der Konstellation "Berlin - Moskau", Volkskunde in Sachsen, 18/2006, pp.73-98 [with Alexa Färber].

"Shopping Malls and Shishas. Urban Space and Material Culture as Approaches to Transformation in Berlin and Moscow". Ethnologia Europaea vol. 34:2 [2004], pp. 113-128 [with Alexa Färber].